Australian Teens Copy Us Shootings

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Two Australian teenagers who reportedly planned an American-style school massacre were in psychiatric care Wednesday after police swooped when their concerned headmaster alerted authorities, officials said.

The 16-year-olds planned a Columbine-style massacre, drawing up a hit-list of students and staff they planned to target and discussing their plans on an internet chat site, Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.

The paper said a fellow student at Crookwell high school in Goulburn, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) southwest of Sydney, raised concerns with the principal, who passed on the information to police.

Deputy Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione, who did not provide details of the alleged plot, said authorities had to take threats seriously, particularly after school shootings in America.

Gunman Cho Seung-Hui killed 33 people, including himself, in last month's Virginia tech massacre, while students Eric Harris and Dylan Kle bold shot dead 13 then turned their guns on themselves in the 1999 Columbine school killings.

http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=237464&n=27

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Again, isn't it weird the Columbine killers only whacked 13 people with 170 bullets while Cho, by himself, murdered 32 with roughly the same amount? He was way more lethal than the average nut. And on a key media day no less with the Gonzales trial. It just doesn't seem right. Plus Australia seems like it has a Bush of its own and I wonder how much the media is going to play up the threats towards the school. Disinformation, or distortion, exaggeration, whatever.